Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] atyfb expert needed

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Dani=EBl Mantione wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > BTW, according to Dani=EBl Mantione the DSP calculations in atyfb hav=
e always
> > been wrong (but apparently worked on most machines due to sheer luck =
;-), so
> > you may want to compare with aty_dsp_gt() in current 2.4.
>
> Well, wrong in the sense that the calculations they make are very
> different from both Ati's example code and XFree86 code. The original a=
uthor
> (unknown to me at this time) might have had reasons to code it like thi=
s,
> but it looks realistic that he simply tried to modify it till it worked
> for him.

I remember starting from ATI sample code, but that didn't work well, and
modifying that based on info from the XFree86 code, until it worked.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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